Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

-Twenty-three citizens of Darlington
were carried before a trial justice last
week and tried for neglect and refusal to
do road duty. They got a jury and were
acquitted.
The Rev. HI. B. Blakely, who vas re-
Gently elected pastor of New Hope A. R.
P. Church, in Fairfield county, has accept
ed the call and will enter upon his duties
sometime during the present month.
- James Saddler was killed by Joseph
Werts in Newberry county last Thursday
morning. Saddler had threatened to kill
Werts on sight, but the latter got the drop
on his antagonist and shot him dead in
the road.
- Abbeville Press and Banner: Mr.. R..
H. Verdery lost his best mule last Thurs
day from eating green sorghum of the
second growth. Let it not be forgotten
that sorghum cane, before the ripening of
the seed, is a deadly poisonto cattle, horses
and mules, and that the second growth in
its green state is fatal to stock.
In the Chesterfield Court of Sessions,
last week, two cases were tried that crea-
ted quite a sensation. Two white women
were indicted for marrying negroes. The
men had both run away to escape arrest.
The women employed colored lawyers
from Cheraw and were both convicted and
sent to jail to await the sentence of the
Court.
1T is understood that the gentlemen
who recently met in Anderson as repre-
sentatives of the farmers movement, as
engineered by Messrs. Tillman, Tindall,
Norris and their associates, resolved on
three objective points, viz, the organiza-
ton of the Agricultural Department, the
displacement of the present Commission
err of Agriculture and the establishment
of a separate State agricultural college.
Ex-Governor Aiken died on the 9TH
instant at his country place at Flat Rock,
N. c., aged 81 years. He was Governor OF
South Carolina in 1914 and a Congressman
from 1851 to 1857. He was the largest
STAKEHOLDER in the State and was a success
full rice planter. He consistently opposed
part in politics after leaving Congress.
trustees of the Peabody fund.
Spartanburg Herald: On last Wednes-
day at one o'clock between s~eventy-fve
and one hundred hands refused to return
to their work in the factory at Clifton.
The strike wa caused by the discharge of
one of the hands. It appears that he was
a Knight of Labor, and when his discharge
became known, the whole lodge struck.
Their places were Immediately supplied
and the mills continued to run, losing no
time whatever ON account of the strike.
It is stated that none of the strikers will
be again employed.
III. A. Harth, of Columbia, was mar
ried to Miss Rachel David, the daughter
of a wealthy Jewess, at the executive
mansion on Tuesday, Gov. Richardson
performing the ceremony. It was a run
away match, and the bride objected to be-
ing married by a clergyman, so the Gov
groom is a Gentle, and the marriage met
with opposition from the relatives of the
bride. According to Jewish custom in
similar cases, her apartments in her moth
er's house are draped in mourning and she
is regarded as dead to the family.
- The Edgefeld correspondent of the
News and Courier, writing last Friday,
saws, in reference to bail for Jones, the
triple murderer: Zones proposed bonds
men, four in number, were again in town
a few days g o They insisted that they
were financially able to meet the demands
of Judge Wallace's order. The clerk of
the Court, after a thorough investigation,
thought otherwise, and so Jones' second
attempt to give bail has failed: 1t is said
that the bondsmen came within $4,000 OF
making up the amount and that they are
now trying to make up the bond. 1t IS
generally believed that they will succeed
and that in a few days Jones will be at lib
erty."
The Acknowledgement has rendered
an opinion to the effect that every agent
licensed by the Comptroller General to 90
any business of insurance must first hIe a
certified copy of the vote or resolution OF
the trustees or directors of said company
appointing him such agent, accompanied
by a warrant of appointment under the
official seal of the company, and signed by
the president and secretary, and that eV-
cry licensed agent thus becomes an attor-
ney to accept service. In accordance with
this opinion the Comptroller General has
issued a circular to insurance agents doing
business in the State, in which he says:
GAIL agents now holding licenses from
this department for the year ending March
31st, 1888, will at once procure and file
with this office warrants of their appoint
ment as above provided, the same to be on
a form which will be furnished by the
Comptroller General, and in all cases
where this is not done by the 18th day of
October, proximo, the license now out
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